CASE FOR INNOVATION

CHRISTOPHER MARINOPOULOS 539374

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

Part A. EOI I: CASE FOR INNOVATION

A.1 ARCHITECTURE AS A DIS-COURSE

ARCHITECTURE AS A DISCOURSEUNStudio, Burnham Pavillion, Chicago, 2009

The Burnham pavillion by UNStudio is small temporary pavillion that is an indi-cator a key example of how programs such as Grasshopper can be beneficial to the city’s aesthetics. It contributes to an augmented experience of the users, relating to Daniel Burnham’s 1909 plan of Chicago, and expresses it using a new form of construction and experience. The fact that it was temporary does not change the grand effect on the site and the interaction between person and building, incorporating new technologies and simple geometry to create a stream-line but complex structure. Its legacy is the memory of how a pavillion can add to a persons experience, and make people understand how new software can create new ideas and aesthetically pleasing sturctures for the public to use.

ARCHITECTURE AS A DISCOURSEsoma Architecture, White Noise, Salzburg, Austria, 2010

The White Noise project, used as the Salzburg Biennale Music Pavillion, expresses a different form of pavillion to the public, using new programs to create a structurally stable and intriguing structure. The use of geometry and exposing the structural rods leaves a strong impres-sion on the surronding are, when compared to the rectalinear buldings in the square. The pavillion draws people to it, and creates a feeling of exploration and wonder, and leaves a legacy of how structures builit similarly can be built on a larger scale. The achievement of Bollinger and Grohmann Engineers, by using new pro-grams to understand the loads and stuructual elements of the type of geometry, causes a positive approach to new ways of designing and constructing, allowing for a change in global perception of computational design and show that remarkable results can be achieved.